Thomas Lockhart began his technical career working in the field of Very
Long Baseline Interferometry as a data analyst and systems developer for
VLBI correlators at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a NASA facility in
Pasadena, California. He designed and built the systems used for data
collection, transmission, assembly, and integrated data management for the
NASA Global GPS Network implemented in the 1990s. This system uses Ingres,
a commercial RDBMS, as the data management backbone of the near-real-time
data collection system, and handles ~300MB of GPS tracking data per
day.

He has implemented data acquisition systems on a global scale, and is
familiar with the communications issues related to data acquisition and
delivery throughout the world.

Fluent with C++, C, Fortran, FORTH, Pascal, SQL, Ingres4GL, perl, lex,
yacc, Tom has also acquired systems experience with Linux, HPUX,
SunOS/Solaris, DEC (Unix and VMS). He is an active participant in Open
Source software development, including TAO (a real-time CORBA package) and
as a core member of the PostgreSQL group.